Alec Bolton

(1926-1996), born Drummoyne, Sydney, served in the RAN in the latter part of the Second World War. Graduating BA from the University of Sydney, he joined Angus & Robertson where he worked with Beatrice Davis and Rosemary Dobson, marrying the latter in 1951. In 1960 he left A&R to work with Ure Smith but returned to A&R to become their London editor in 1966. In 1971 he became director of publications at the National Library of Australia and in 1972 established Brindabella Press as a leisure-time occupation. From the press (which he renamed Officina Brindabella 1985-92 because Brindabella Press had already been registered as a business name) has come a steady stream of impressive publications, e.g. Rosemary Dobson's Three Poems on Water Springs, Greek Coins: A Sequence of Poems and The Continuance of Poetry: Twelve Poems for David Campbell, James McAuley's Time Given and Les Murray's The Idyll Wheel. In 1987 Bolton left NLA to operate Brindabella Press (reverting to that title when it became vacant in 1992) full-time. The story of Brindabella Press, with a list of Bolton's publications, is in A Licence to Print (1993) in the Friends of the National Library of Australia series, text by Michael Richards.

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